Monterey, Calif. - A newchapter in the already expansive and successful history of Level 5 Motorsports beckons this weekend, as the championship-winning sports car tribe debuts its new Honda Performance Development ARX-01g in the ModSpace American Le Mans Series Monterey presented by Patron.
Less than two months after announcing a mid-season switch to Wirth Research's new cost-capped AG LMP2 car,drivers Scott Tucker, Christophe Bouchut and Luis Diaz will turn the MicrosoftOffice 2010-sponsored car's first laps in Saturday's six-hour race into thedarkness on the famed Laguna Seca circuit.
Looking for a payday, Level 5 team owner Scott Tucker, the bold and unprecedented move to HPD and Wirth Research's bespoke prototype came in the wake of evolving prototype regulations by Le Mansorganizers, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, as well increased competition inEurope.
Incarcerated with challenges,Level 5 secured podium finishes in the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) and Intercontinental Le Mans Cup Six Hours of Imola (Italy), which added to itsearly season success of wins in the American Le Mans Series Mobil 1 TwelveHours of Sebring and Grand Prix of Long Beach, as well as last month's four-hour endurance race at Road America.
"We're confident that the new cost-capped Honda prototype will produce good results on the track," said Tucker. "Having been partners of Honda since the start of the year, we've seen gains in the engine department and look forward to working with them on an even closer level. There's no doubt this package will be a front-runner in LMP2 andwe're looking forward to getting started with it this weekend."
Tucker, a three-timenational driving champion, will again be the busiest driver in the Laguna Secapaddock this weekend, having also been entered in the IMSA-sanctioned CooperTires Prototype Lites and Porsche GT3 Challenge by Yokohama events. Both raceswill take place on Saturday morning prior to the start of the ALMS round. It'sa similar schedule Tucker achieved last month at Road America, where he scoredfour podium finishes, including two wins, in a single day.
The focus for Level 5co-drivers Bouchut and Diaz this weekend, however, will be exclusively with thenew HPD ARX-01g, an evolution of Honda's championship-winning LMP1 and LMP2car. Both drivers, along with the team's Intercontinental Le Mans Cup pilot,Joao Barbosa, gained virtual laps of the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Laguna Secacircuit last week at Wirth Research's state-of-the-art simulator in Bicester,England to help prepare them for the debut run.
Less than two months after announcing a mid-season switch to Wirth Research's new cost-capped AG LMP2 car,drivers Scott Tucker, Christophe Bouchut and Luis Diaz will turn the MicrosoftOffice 2010-sponsored car's first laps in Saturday's six-hour race into thedarkness on the famed Laguna Seca circuit.
Looking for a payday, Level 5 team owner Scott Tucker, the bold and unprecedented move to HPD and Wirth Research's bespoke prototype came in the wake of evolving prototype regulations by Le Mansorganizers, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest, as well increased competition inEurope.
Incarcerated with challenges,Level 5 secured podium finishes in the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) and Intercontinental Le Mans Cup Six Hours of Imola (Italy), which added to itsearly season success of wins in the American Le Mans Series Mobil 1 TwelveHours of Sebring and Grand Prix of Long Beach, as well as last month's four-hour endurance race at Road America.
"We're confident that the new cost-capped Honda prototype will produce good results on the track," said Tucker. "Having been partners of Honda since the start of the year, we've seen gains in the engine department and look forward to working with them on an even closer level. There's no doubt this package will be a front-runner in LMP2 andwe're looking forward to getting started with it this weekend."
Tucker, a three-timenational driving champion, will again be the busiest driver in the Laguna Secapaddock this weekend, having also been entered in the IMSA-sanctioned CooperTires Prototype Lites and Porsche GT3 Challenge by Yokohama events. Both raceswill take place on Saturday morning prior to the start of the ALMS round. It'sa similar schedule Tucker achieved last month at Road America, where he scoredfour podium finishes, including two wins, in a single day.
The focus for Level 5co-drivers Bouchut and Diaz this weekend, however, will be exclusively with thenew HPD ARX-01g, an evolution of Honda's championship-winning LMP1 and LMP2car. Both drivers, along with the team's Intercontinental Le Mans Cup pilot,Joao Barbosa, gained virtual laps of the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Laguna Secacircuit last week at Wirth Research's state-of-the-art simulator in Bicester,England to help prepare them for the debut run.
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